Cinésthesia

Feelings. On film.

Tuesday, 31 March 2026

The cruelty is the point: "Dhurandhar: The Revenge"

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Last December's Dhurandhar  was three-and-a-half hours of artful India First propaganda, propulsive enough on a scene-by-scene basis to ...

On demand: "Transhood"

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Transhood  is a real journey, in just 93 minutes. As per that title, the approach this HBO doc takes is not unlike that taken by Richard Lin...
Saturday, 28 March 2026

For what it's worth...

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UK box office Top Ten  (for the weekend of March 20-22, 2026) : 1 (new) Project Hail Mary  (12A) *** 2 (new) Dhurandhar: The Revenge  (18) *...
Friday, 27 March 2026

Curious George: "Orwell: 2+2=5"

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In an era of blandly streaming hagiography, the veteran Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck has developed the distinguishing skill of using noted l...
Wednesday, 25 March 2026

On demand: "Saipan"

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The directorial pairing of Lisa Barros D'Sa and Glenn Leyburn continue their useful project of revisiting leftfield but revealing moment...
Tuesday, 24 March 2026

In memoriam: Valerie Perrine (Telegraph 23/03/26)

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Valerie Perrine , who has died aged 82, was a game, sparky performer who started her career as a Las Vegas showgirl, emerged into the Hollyw...
Monday, 23 March 2026

Coarse corrections: "The Good Boy/Heel"

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The latest filmmaker to migrate from the arthouse fringes to the English-language commercial cinema is the Pole Jan Komasa, whose impressive...
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Mike McCahill
London, United Kingdom
Mike was born in Warwickshire in 1978. He has written on film and TV for The Telegraph since 2003, for The Guardian since 2012, and for the Reader's Digest since 2016. In the intervening years, he has appeared on Radio 4's "Today" programme and - with a degree of randomness befitting the man - BBC2's "Working Lunch". He has also contributed to the home-viewing reference guide "The DVD Stack" (Canongate, 2006; second edition 2007), Halliwell's "The Movies That Matter" (HarperCollins, 2008) and "The Little White Lies Movie Quiz Book" (Laurence King, 2019).
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